Mop holder



| RITER MOP HOLDER Dec. 14, 1943.

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Application March 1, 1943, Serial No. 477,576

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in mop holders and has for anobject thereof to provide a simple, durable and inexpensive device ofsuch character to and from which a mop may be easily applied andremoved.

Another object of the invention is to supply a mop holder adaptedreadily to receive a mop and to hold the same with the free portion ofthe depending swab suspended within a bucket resting on the floor,whereby water from the swa-b may drip into the bucket and the swab willdry out smoothly and evenly.

A further object of the invention is to provide a mop holder of theinstant nature that is pivotally suspended and swingable out of avertical position, whereby the user may readily present the swab of themop in a conveniently accessible position for the ready examination,trimming or other repair thereof.

Other objects of the invention resides in the novel combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterillustrated and/or described.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a mophanger embodying one form of my invention, the same being shown assuspended from a supporting bracket issuing from a wall; Fig. 2 is afront elevational view of the form of hanger shown in Fig. 1, saidhanger being illustrated as suspended from a ceiling; Fig. 3 is aperspective view in detail of a medial portion of the hanger, shown inFigs. 1 and 2, and illustrating, particularly, the handle-retainingmember of said hanger.

Reference being had to the drawing, wherein similar reference charactersare employed to designate similar parts throughout the several views, itwill be seen that the illustrated form of my invention consists of ahanger A, constructed from a single length of wire, including arelatively long shank I having an attaching eye I I at its upper end, amop-supporting hook I2 at its lower end and a retaining eye I3intermediate its ends.

The attaching eye II is adapted to be hingedly caught in an anchoringmember suchas an eye I4 secured to an elevated supporting bracket I5 ona wall I6 (Fig. 1), or secured to a ceiling I 6 (Fig. 2). The axis ofsaid eye II is at right angles to the shank I0 and admits of pivotalmovement \of said shank for purposes soon to appear.

The retaining eye I3, intermediate the ends of said shank I0, islaterally offset from the shank I0, the axis of said retaining eye beingparallel with said shank and the inside diameter of said eye I3 beinglarge enough to receive a mop handle, as at Il, whereby such handle maybe readily threaded into said eye I3 from beneath the same.

The mop-supporting hook I2 turns upwardly beneath the retaining eye I3and is adapted to catch in the head I8 of a mop. This hook is preferablydisposed in relation to the floor I9, whereby the depending swab 2U ofthe supported mop will hang with the free end thereof within a bucket 2|on the floor. Thus, if a mop is hung in the holder A while wet, thewater will drip from the swab 20 into the bucket 2I and said swab willdry out smoothly and evenly.

Upon applying a mop to the holder A, the handle I1 of the mop is simplythreaded upwardly through the retaining eye I3, the mop being thereafterlowered and the head I8 thereof caught on the hook I2. When removing amop from my holder, the operation is reversed, the mop being rst liftedto disengage the head I8 thereof from said hook I2 and then lowered towithdraw the handle I1 from the retaining eye I3, thus wholly freeingthe mop from the holder.

For the purpose of conveniently examining the mop swab 20 and trimmingor otherwise attending thereto, the hanger may be swung into a positionsuch as that shown in dotted lines in Fig. l in which position and withthe mop still supported by the hanger, the swab 20 is readily accessibleto the user for such treatment as may be required.

Changes in the specific form of my invention, as herein disclosed, maybe made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from thespirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protectby Letters Patent is:

A mop holder adapted to be pivotally suspended from a supporting memberabove a floor, said holder being formed from a single length of wire andcomprising a shank longer than the handle of a mop to be held and havingan attaching eye at its upper end for permanent hinging cooperation withsuch supporting member, said shank having a hook at its lower end andhaving between its ends a laterally offset retaining eye for the handleof the mop, the axis of said eye paralleling said shank, said eye beingadapted freely threadedly to receive the mop handle from beneath thesame, said hook being upturned with its crotch disposed in the axis ofsaid retaining eye, said hook being adapted to catch in the head of themop beneath the mop handle and across the axis thereof to support themop with its swab depending in parallelism with the mop-handle and withthe free end of said swab positioned to hang within a bucket on thefloor.

LAMBERT REITER.

